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A 21-year-old former student carried out the attack at a vocational college in the eastern city of Wuxi, police said, after failing exams and being frustrated with low internship pay
Eight people were killed and 17 others injured when a 21-year-old former student went on a stabbing spree at a vocational college in China’s eastern city of Wuxi on Saturday evening, police said.
The knife attack took place at the Wuxi Vocational College of Arts and Technology, in eastern Jiangsu province. The 21-year-old suspect, surnamed Xu, was apprehended at the scene and confessed to the attack, police added.

Anthony Albanese meets with leaders of Peru and Indonesia as middle nations seek to diversify trade away from the US
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has hailed “inclusive trade and investment” at a major Asia-Pacific economic forum in Peru where leaders are attempting to push against the
Speaking at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders summit, which assembles 21 of the world’s largest economies, Albanese told a press conference that Apec leaders consistently “spoke about the importance of free and fair trade between our economies to lift up the living standards of people throughout this region”.

A new China-backed megaport in Peru may create whole new trade routes that will bypass North America entirely.

Beneath a projector screen, a Chinese PhD student at an elite American university was explaining how modern states were built to a crowd of more than 40 young urbanites who packed the tiny venue ...

China’s “academic pubs” are serving up a free flow of conversation in a country well known for its censorship.

Asian Americans, as well as less-educated voters, drove San Francisco's small shift toward Donald Trump in the 2024 election. While the city remained overwhelmingly Democratic, precinct-level analysis ...

After rare accord with Biden White House on climate, China may now be more wary of adopting robust policy measures
China is facing crucial decisions on its climate policies as its hard-won relationship with the US on tackling the crisis looks set to founder during Donald Trump’s second presidential term.
World leaders and heads of delegations from many countries gathered at the are trying to salvage commitments that China has made during Joe Biden’s term, which ends in January.

Undocumented immigrants from China will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration, sources close to the campaign previously told NBC News.

With Donald J. Trump promising tariffs, Malaysia hopes a deal with Singapore for greater economic integration will strengthen its role as a China alternative.

Analysis lays bare huge challenge of mismanaged waste on eve of UN plastic treaty talks in Busan
Global plastic production must be reduced to tackle the immense , according to an analysis published on the eve of crucial talks to hammer out the world’s first legally binding treaty on plastic waste.
Mismanaged plastic waste, which leaches into the environment and can be harmful to health, will double to 121m tonnes by 2050 if limits are not placed on the production of plastic, according to Samuel Pottinger, the lead author of the research.

Temperatures in Guangzhou fail to drop below level that meteorological service uses to mark change in season
One of China’s biggest cities is still officially in summer, despite it being mid-November, as temperatures have failed to drop below the threshold considered necessary to mark the change in season.
This week, Guangzhou, a hot and humid city of nearly 19 million people in southern China’s Guangdong province, broke a three-decade heat record, according to the local meteorological service. As of Wednesday the city had experienced 235 summer days, beating 1994’s 234-day season.

The youths pulled back the corners of their eyes with their fingers — mocking the couple’s Asian features — and taunted the pair by screaming “ni hao!” which is ...